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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Properly, a member of the Hysterophyta; a fungus of any kind; in common usage, any fungus growing upon organic matter, from which it derives its nourishment; a saprophyte.
  2. n. In phytogeography, a herbaceous plant which does not elaborate its own nourishment, that is, a saprophyte or parasite: opposed to autophyte.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany A plant or fungus that lives on dead or living organic matter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek ὑστέρα ("womb, figuratively the earth") + -phyte (Wiktionary)

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  1. saprophyte
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